The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-10
CARELESS LUCY.

Some Funny Mistakes, and One That Had
No Laugh i'll 1t.
Lucy lockwood was eight years old;
and | suppose you never saw little
girl who could skip a rope or run q
race any faster than she could, or one
who could learn her lessons any better
when she tried. There was the
trouble with L1cy; she did not always
try. She had sad habit of thinking
Of something else' at exactly the
wrong time.
1t was so in church. She meant to
listen to the sermon. but her mind was
apt to stray away; and if any of the
family asked her afterward for the text
it was strange medley they hca rd
from little Lucy. For example, DIR.
Palmer preached one morning from
The words: but whose shall offend
one of these little ones which believe
IN Me. it were better for him that
milestone were hanged about his neck,
md that he were drowned in the
depth of the sea-"
did you listen to the sermon this
morningP" asked Jack. after dinner.
"Of course l did"
'Do you know the text?"
"Of course l do" answered Lucy.
feeling unusually well prepared.
You must put a millstone round your
neck. and jump into the water "
Jack laughed very loud.
'Well, if you don't hear with your
elbows! What is the sense in such q
text as tha!?"
81 don't know; 1 thought it was
funny, and l didn't like the sermon
much; but that was almost just the
very thing he said." persisted Lucy,
ready to cry. He said that was what
you must do if you wanted to be
good.
One day Mrs. Lockwood, who was
not well. dispatched little Lucy to
shoe store to ask the merchant if he
would kindly send her pair of boots
10 try on. 'Common-sense boots. num-
Der four Do you think you can re-
member. dear?"
Yes, indeed, Lucy was sure she could
remember common sense" and so,
indeed, she did; the word she forgot
was boots" When she reached the
store she looked up in the merchants S
face and asked, in her quick way:
Have you any common sense, sir?"
which was certainly a strange query
from n pleasant, polite little girl TO n
man five times her own age, let her
think what she might of his brains;
and it was hardly strange that MI
Mead laughed, although Lucy thought
it very unkind.
She FASTENED then to add "boots,"
but by that time she had forgotten the
number. She thought it was eight, but
Mr.. Mead advised her to run home
and inquire.
Her aunt sent her once for q brush
of camers hair to paint with; and
when Lucy reached the art store she
called breathlessly for q chair brush, "
adding, as an after-thOught: "a
cdneys hair brush, mean"
Why was it that the clerk looked so
amused? And wasn't it very rude of
him to asked: Does your father
keep wild animals, little miss?,'
But she made mistake once at
which nobody Iaughed-a mistake
which came near proving very serious
indeed. Ole autumn evening when
her play-fellow, brother Jack, was
gone, and she was feeling rather lone
some, it suddenly occurred to her
that she wanted an apple. aud must
have one that very minute.
Very We'll" said her mother,
"there are plenty in the pantry"
"Oh, but, mamma. it is a golden
pippin l want! one of those golden
pippins that you told Tom to put in
the pink chamber closet.
Mrs. LOCKWOOD looked up from her
sewing in some surprise. How hap
pened Lucy to know about the golden
pippins?
May have one, mammal"
Yes. if you can wait for me TO 90
up stairs; but 1 am very busy just
now"
Can't you trust me to go my own
self, mamma? Not with a lamp,
you know, but Jane will light me
candle"
'Will you be very sure not to carry
the candle into the closetP"
"Oh, no, indeed! On, ges, indeed!
l mean; and I'll be-oh. so carefulP'
We'll. if you will remember to set
the candle down by the chamber door,
I think there will be no danger"
"Yes'm, I WILL" said Lucy, and
danced away joyfully. She held the
candle aloft, and peered rather eau
tiously about the pink chamber.
Moth Nothing to be afraid of herol Nam,
na talks to me about lamps and
things just as if was a baby but |
guess she'll find out know as much